xiv, 798 pages 25 cm

"As autobiography (this book) is enthralling, as history indispensable, as a manual on government and diplomacy invaluable". -- Wallace Carroll, New York Times Book Review

Includes bibliographical references (pages [770]-778)

Pulitzer Prize, History, 1970

Years of Learning: Assistant Secretary of State, 1941-1945. Enlistment for the War to Come ; The "Old" State Department ; The Year We Held Our Breath ; Retrospect ; Economic Warfare at Home ; Economic Warfare Abroad : Deadlock ; Economic Warfare Abroad : Deadlock Ends ; Preparation for an Unknown World ; The International Conference Stage ; The Bretton Woods Agreements ; A Change of Secretaries and of Jobs ; Chief Lobbyist for State ; Success, Disenchantment, and Resignation -- Action Begins: Under Secretary of State, August 1945-June 1947. A New Job and Widening Responsibilities ; Trouble in High Places ; Washington Agent for the Marshall Mission : Phase One ; The Acheson-Lilienthal Report ; The Department Muffs its Intelligence Role ; The Quebec Agreement ; The Puzzle of Palestine ; Trouble Brews in Washington ; Trouble Breaks in Europe ; Washington Agent for the Marshall Mission : Phase Two ; General Marshall Takes Over ; The Truman Doctrine ; The Crisis Broadens : Birth of the Marshall Plan ; Mustered Out -- Years of Responsibility: Secretary of State, 1949-1953. Decisions Were Made Fast in 1949 ; Recalled to Active Duty ; The World that Lay Before Us ; An Eventful Spring ; The North Atlantic Treaty: An Open Covenant Openly Arrived At ; Allied Policy Toward Germany ; The Foreign Ministers Meet in Paris ; Summer Brings Difficult Decisions ; Anglo-American Atomic Cooperation Reviewed ; Devaluation of the Pound ; More Meetings at Home and Abroad ; A Reappraisal of Policies ; Problems Came Faster in 1950 ; The Attack of the Primitives Begins ; The Attack Mounts ; A New Definition of Foreign Policy ; Europe and the Schuman Plan ; Balanced Collective Forces for Europe ; War in Korea : The Outbreak ; War in Korea : The First Crisis ; September Decisions ; September Surprises ; October Odysseys ; "An Entirely New War" ; December Despondency ; 1951: Year of Troubles and Progress ; Calming Worries at Home and to the South ; Double Trouble in Iran ; Attempts to Stabilize the Korean War ; The Relief of General Mac Arthur ; The Move for an Armistice in Korea ; Peace with Japan ; NATO in Stagnation ; Egypt and the Middle East Command ; Ottawa and Excursions Without Alarums ; The "Disarmament Assembly" ; NATO Meets in Rome ; 1952: Success and Failure at The End ; The Churchill Visit ; Death of a King ; Four Ministers Meet in London ; Lisbon ; Once More Unto the Breach ; Bonn and Paris ; Korea : Frustration, Riot, and Revolt ; A Sentimental Journey ; Indochina ; A Second Try in Iran ; Election Summer ; An Open Covenant Openly Connived Against ; Changing the Guard ; Last Farewells -- Retrospection in Tranquility. Summing Up

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